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COURSE & YEAR : 1BSBA - B Date:

(A) Identification: Identify the term/s being referred to.

1. The American psychologist who is best known for his theory of stages of moral
development.

2. The kind of technique used by Kohlberg to tell stories involving moral dilemmas.

3. This is a moral character trait for which the agent is deserving of a negative reactive
attitude, such as resentment or blame.

4. These are particular kinds of properties or characteristics that objects can possess.

5: In this level of morality, people recognize that rules represent agreements among many
individuals about appropriate behavior.

6. This refers to the existence or lack of virtues such as integrity, courage, fortitude,
honesty, and loyalty.

7. A philosopher who held that the function of human being consists in activities which
manifest the best states of his rational aspect, that is, the virtues.

8. The motto in this particular stage in Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development seems to
be: "Might makes right"

9. This is a disposition to do vicious deeds.

10. This is morally responsible for having the moral character trait itself or the outcome of
that trait.

(B) True or False: Write T if the statement is true ; F if false.

1. A certain moral character trait is a trait for which the agent is morally responsible.

2. A moral character trait for which a person is deserving of a positive reactive attitude, such as
praise or gratitude, is a vice.

3. Moral character traits are those dispositions of character for which it is suitable to hold agents
morally responsible.
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4. In the process of moral development, there is the circular relation between acts that build
character and moral character itself.

5. In Stage 1 of Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development, children are disposed to be egotistic or

self-serving.

6. Some say that Kohlberg's sample is biased because Kohlberg's theory was based on an all-
male sample, and thus the stages reflect an androcentric or male definition of morality.

7. A good moral character is practically a disposition to do virtuous acts

8. All ethicists accept Kohlberg's theory on moral development

9. The term "character" is derived from the Greek word charaktér, which was initially used as a
mark impressed upon a coin.

10. Kohlberg pinpointed three distinct levels of moral reasoning each with two sub stages
composing his so-called six stages of moral development.

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I. Identification. Identify the term/s being referred to.

1 They hold that there is no such thing as objective right or real wrong.

2 This claims that any legitimate truth claim must be empirically verifiable.

3. This holds that the truth or falsity of ethical propositions is dependent on the feelings,
attitudes, or standards of a person or group of persons.

4. This theory was developed chiefly by Stevenson and has been one of the most
influential theories of Ethics in the 20 century.

5. They are seen as also necessary in ethical judgment as they are even deemed by some
as instinctive and trained response to moral dilemmas.

6. This interprets ethical sentences as statements of fact, particularly as reports of the

speaker's attitude.

7. These can be rational in being based at least sometimes on good judgments about
how well a circumstance or agent accomplishes appropriate objectives.

8. Individuals who conclude that being good involves both thinking and feeling.

9. This admits that moral judgments are 'truth bearers.

10. This theory basically states that moral judgments express positive or negative
feelings.

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II. True or False. Write T if the statement is True' F if false.

1. Feelings and emotions can become obstacles or impediments becoming ethical.

2 Ethical Subjectivism suggests that we are to identify our moral principles by simply following
our feelings.

3. Sometimes, cold, impartial, rational thinking is the only proper way to make an ethical
decision.

4. Ethics-without-feeling also appears to go against Christian philosophy's emphasis on love, for

love is basically a strong liking, desire, or emotion

5. Emotivism holds that the truth or falsity of ethical propositions is dependent on the feelings,
attitudes, or standards of a person or group of persons.

6. Ethical Subjectivism also implies that each of us is infallible so long as we are honestly
expressing our respective feelings about moral issues.

7. Moral judgments, according to Subjectivism, are not statements of fact but are mere
expressions of the emotions of the speaker, especially since they are usually feelings-based.

8. Emotions, like our love for our friends and family, are a crucial part of what gives life
meaning, and ought to play a guiding role in morality.

9. Feelings are also visceral or instinctual by providing motivations to act morally.

10. Subjectivism can account for the fact of disagreement in ethics.

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I. True or False. Write T if the statement is true; F, if it is false.

1. Humans have not only feelings but also reason, and reason plays a vital role in Ethics.

2. Morality commends what it commends, regardless of our feelings, attitudes, opinions, and
desires.

3. The principle of impartiality assumes that every person, generally speaking, is equally
important; that is, no one is seen as intrinsically more significant than anyone else.

4. When two opposing alternatives are offered, the consequences of one are the mirror image
of the other.

5. It must be realized that one common element to moral impartiality is that there are no easy
and painless solutions to them.

6. A moral judgment is true if it is espoused by better reasons than the alternatives.

7. At least in Philosophy, reason is the basis or motive for an action, decision, or conviction.

8. The rightful moral decision involves selecting the option that has the power of reason on its
side.

9. Reason is a principle of justice holding that decisions ought to be based on objective criteria,
rather than on the basis of bias, prejudice, or preferring the benefit to one person over another for
improper reasons.

10. Reason spells the difference of moral judgments from mere expressions of personal
preference.

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II. Matching Type (based on the 7-Step Moral Reasoning Model). Match column A with column B.

1. Identify the principles that a. The indispensable first step

have a bearing on the case. prior to any ethical analysis and

2. Determine the ethical issues reflection on the case

3. Gather these facts b. The step where both positive and

4. List the Alternatives negative consequences are to be

5. Make a Decision. considered.

6. Assess/Weigh the Consequences. c. The step when one decides

7. Compare Alternatives with Principles. whether some principles are to

be weighed more heavily than

others.

d. This involves eliminating

alternatives according to the

moral principles that have a

bearing on the case

e. Moral issues should be correctly

stated in terms of competing

interests

f. This part of the model is done

after deliberation

g. This involves coming up with

various alternative courses of

action as part of the creative

thinking
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I. Identification. Identify the term/s being referred to

1. The German philosopher who explained that when we become conscious of

ourselves, we recognize that our essential qualities are endless urging, craving, striving, wanting, and
desiring

2. This is important as one of the distinct parts of the mind along with reason and
understanding

3. The giving up of instant pleasure and satisfaction for a higher and better goal such as
executing a good rational moral decision.

4. Many ethicists believe that this is also important in carrying out moral decisions.

5. It encompasses endowing the inner strength to focus all the energy on a moral goal
and persevere until it is accomplished.

6. The inner strength to make a decision, take action, and handle and execute any aim
or task until it is accomplished regardless of inner and outer resistance, discomfort or difficulties.

7. Declining to satisfy unimportant and unnecessary desires is one example of this

method in developing will and moral courage

8. Schopenhauer believes that this is primary and uses knowledge in order to find an
object that will satisfy its craving.

9. The quiet voice within us which when disregarded may lead to feelings of inadequacy,
guilt and diminished personal integrity.

10. They exhibit will power by putting aside compelling but momentary pleasures or
comforts in order to set a good example for their children.

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II. Enumeration. Enumerate the term/s being asked.

A. Individuals who are outstanding examples of moral courage (1-5)

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

B. The five essential qualities/features of Will (6-10)

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.
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I. Multiple Choice. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. Moral realism

a. an ethical system that bases morality on real opinions

b. a cognitive ethics that claims that the existence of moral facts and the truth of moral judgments are
independent of people's thoughts and perceptions

c. holds that the truth of ethical propositions are dependent on the attitudes or standards of a person or
group of persons

2. Normative ethics

a. evaluates standards for the morality of actions and determines a moral course of action

b. studies the nature of moral judgment

c. determines the ethically correct course of action in specific realms of human action.

3. Moral rationalism

a. claims that we have intuitive awareness of value or morality

b. contends that moral facts and principles are knowable a priori

c. states that moral facts and principles are knowable with reference to experience

4. Virtue ethics

a. bases morality on independent moral rules or duties.

b. determines the moral value of actions by their outcomes or results

c. places emphasis on developing good habits of character

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5. Emotivism

a. maintains that morality is about objective facts

b. submits that moral judgments are mere expressions of our emotion and feelings

c. holds that morality is not facts about any person or group's subject judgment

II. Modified Identification. Choose your answers from the following choices:
Moral rationalism Social ethics. Applied Ethics
Meta-ethics. Moral universalism. Cognitivism
Business ethics. Bio ethics. Teleology
Ethical subjectivism. Moral empiricism. Deontology
Normative Ethics. Non Cognitivism. Moral intuitionism
Sexual ethics

1. It claims that ethical sentences do not convey authentic propositions, hence are
neither true nor false.

2. It deals with what is right for a society to do and how it should act as a whole.

3. It talks about the meaning, reference, and truth values of moral judgments.

4. It concerns ethical issues pertaining to life, biomedical researches, medicines, health

care, and medical profession.

5. It theorizes that moral facts and principles apply to everybody in all places.

6. It takes into account the end result of the action as the exclusive consideration of its
morality.

7. It holds that the truth (or falsity) of ethical propositions are dependent on the
attitudes or standards of a person/s.

8. It states that all knowledge of matters of fact is derived from experience.

9. It examines moral principles concerning corporate environment.

10. An ethical system that bases morality on independent moral rules or duties,
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TheoryDENNIS
NAME: of forms
MANZON moral virtue Nicomachean
PROFESSOR: MS.Ethics
SHYLEEN NUNEZ

Theological
COURSE virtues
& YEAR: 1BSBA-B Temperance Aquinas
Date:

I.Virtue aretaicby choosing from

Identification. Identify the answers self-realization
the box

Gorgias human nature. telos

phronesis happiness

1. This refers to an excellence of moral or intellectual character.

2. The theory that is central to Plato's philosophy.

3. This has been regarded as the Ethics of Aristotle since the beginning of the Christian
era.

4. According to Aquinas, these virtues are concerned directly with God and provide us
with true knowledge and desire of God and of His will.

5. The philosopher who believes that all actions are directed towards ends and that
happiness is the final end.

6. For Aristotle, this is a state of character manifested in choice and action, resting in the
golden mean, resolved by the prescription that a wise person would determine.

7. Aristotle regards this as that kind of moral knowledge which guides us to what is
appropriate in conjunction with

8. This is the mean between gluttony (excess) and extreme frugality (deficiency).

9. In this dialogue written by Plata Socrates indicates the pleasure and pain fail to
provide an objective standard for determining moral from immoral since they do not exist apart from
one another, while good and evil do.

10. Aristotle considers this as the summum bonum -greatest good of all human life

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II. Identification. Identify the particular philosopher being referred to (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle or
Aquinas.)

1. Everything in the material world is what it is by virtue of its resemblance to, or

participation in, this universal Form or idea.

2 For this philosopher, when someone acts in line with his nature or end ('telos') and
thus realizes his full potential, he does moral and will be happy.

3. He declares that ultimate happiness is not attainable in this life, for happiness in the
present life remains imperfect.

4. He holds that the goodness or badness of an action lies in the interior act of will, in
the external bodily act, in the very nature of the act, and even in its consequences.

5. He believes that the ultimate human goal is self-realization.

6. He believed in the existence of objective ethical standards though he admitted that it

is not that easy to specify them.

7. He believes that the essence or essential nature of beings, including humans, lay not
at their cause (or beginning) but at their end ('telos').

8. Typology of laws is central to the ethics of this philosopher.

9. Circularity and squareness are good examples of what this Philosopher meant by
Forms.

10. The Italian philosopher and theologian hailed as the Angelic Doctor and the Prince of
Scholastics.

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II. Enumeration

A. Basic Moral Virtues (Aristotle) (1-4)

1.

2.

3.

4.

B. Four Primary Types of Law (Aquinas) (5-8)

5.

6.

7.

8.

C. Three Aspects through which the morality of an act can be determined

(Aquinas) (9-1)

9.

10.

11.

D. Two kinds of infused virtues (Aquinas) (12-13)

12.

13.

E. Two kinds of virtues (Aristotle) (14-15)

14.

15.

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I. True or False. Write T if the statement is true and F, if it is false.

1. For Kant, happiness, when not combined with goodwill, is worthless.

2. Kant agrees with many ethicists that happiness is the summum bonum.

3. Kantian ethics holds that feelings can help us discern what is right and what is wrong.

4. Kant thinks that acting from a sense of duty means exhibiting good will even in the face of difficulty.

5. Kant teaches that for an act to be moral, it must be done from a sense of duty dictated by reason.

II. Identification. Identify the term/s being referred to

1. He favors motive or intention, not consequences, as having moral worth.

2. The only thing which is good without qualifications for Kant.

3. That which we should consult when we wish to determine the moral status of
our actions. .

4. It is essentially connected with duties and obligation.

5. It is a general rule on principle which serves as a guide to action.

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III. Matching Type. Match the items in the two columns b. Inclination principle
1. The Kantian principle that if a course of action c. Universalizability
cannot be universally adopted, it is not morally d. Hypothetical imperatives
permissible. e. Categorical Imperatives
2. How reason orders one to achieve one's specific ends? f. right
3. It demands actions without qualifications. g. Human rights
4. It is what we ought to do despite our inclination h. Moral rights
or taste to do. i. Legal rights
5. The feeling that pushes us to select a j. United States
particular option or make a particular decision.

6. It is said to be founded upon a Rights

Based Ethics System.

7. These denote all the rights found

within existing legal codes.

8. These rights exist prior to and

independently from their legal counterparts.

9. These rights are best thought of as

being both moral and legal rights.

10. Some ethical theorists define thisas "justified claim that individuals

and groups can make upon other individuals or upon society.

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I. Identification. Write the correct answer on the space provided before each number.

1. He proposed the basic form of utilitarianism.

2. He defended and improved the primary structure of utilitarianism.

3. It is a consequentialist theory, a subclass of teleological moral theory

4. Major ethical system that holds that actions should be ethically evaluated by their
consequences, not by the intentions

5. According to Bentham, these are the two sovereign masters under which nature has
placed mankind.

6. A method to calculate the quantitative worth of pleasures

7. An ethical system that identifies happiness with pleasure

8. The principle that states that an action is right in so far as it tends to produce
greatest of happiness fir the greatest number.

9. Ancient philosopher who explained that happiness does not mean only sensual
pleasure

10. It serves as practical rules, giving knowledge about the tendencies of actions when
no better information is available.

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II. True or False. Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE If the statement wrong.

1. Utilitarianism is teleological.

2. Utilitarianism does not allow for exception to the rule even if justified the consequences

3. Utilitarianism is compatible to Kantian ethics.

4. Cheating is justified in utilitarianism if it will maximize pleasures and minimize pains,

5. Utilitarianism states that the total number of outcomes should be considered before an act
can be declared to be right or wrong.

6. "Higher pleasures' means intellectual, which includes artistic, political and spiritual pleasures.

7. Utilitarianism determines the moral value of an act by the nature of the act itself.

8. The concepts pleasure and pain define the scope and limit of Bentham's ethical system.

9. Kant declared, "it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be
Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied".

10. Mill proposes that "happiness and unhappiness" are the basis for good and evil.

III. Multiple Choice. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. He proposed that an act is justified by the person's motive to perform his duty

a. Kant. c. Mill

b. Bentham. d. Hume

2. It judges the rightness of an act in terms of an external goal or purpose.

a. Deontological ethics. c. Teleological ethics

b. Thomistic ethics. d. Kantian ethics

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3. He is the most famous proponent of utilitarianism after Bentham

a. James Mill c. John Stuart Mill

b. David Hume. d. John Rawts

4. It argues that the right course of action is one that maximizes overall happiness

a. Consequentialist ethics. . c. Teleological ethical system

b. Utilitarian ethics. d. Kantian ethics

5. Mill advocates this principle which states that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that
is the measure of right and wrong

a. Secondary Principle. c. Principle of Socrates

b. Hedonic calculus. d. The greatest happiness principle

6. The Latin term utilis

a. helpful. c. resourceful

b. useful. d. harmful

7. They believe in the natural law or natural rights which render some acts as immoral.

a. Consequentialists c. Utilitarians

b. Absolutists d. none of these

8. It refers to sensual, bodily, and physical pleasures.

a. higher pleasures c. quantitative utilitarian

b. lower pleasures d. all the above

9. Animals, too, can experience this pleasure; such as those from food, drink and sex.

a. lower pleasures. c. quantitative utilitarian

b. higher pleasures. d. none of the above

10. Past experiences teach us which kinds of action promote happiness and which

a. Principle of utility. c. The greatest happiness do not.

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I. Identification. Identify the term/s being referred to.

1. This is a set of closely related socio-economic-political theories that without exemption

promote the proposition that all society members ought to have exactly equal amount of resources.

2. This is Rawls' First Principle of social justice which concerns political institutions.

3. This is considered as a better version of a socialist distributive justice.

4. In social psychology, this is defined as perceived fairness of how rewards and costs are
shared by, or distributed across, group members.

5. This concept was subscribed to by Thomas Jefferson in writing the Declaration of

Independence.

6. This is a system where the government or a central authority controls the production of
goods and services.

7. The American political philosopher who was considered by many as the most
important political philosopher of the 20th century.

8. This occurs when people, businesses, and corporations perform based on their
individual self-interest for their own benefit.

9. This is the standard of behavior that is required, desired, or designated as normal

within a specific group.

10. Rawls maintains this as wrong under all situations, regardless of any utility
calculations, for it does not respect the fundamental rights and liberties of all persons.

II. True or False. Write T if the statement is true, F if it is false

1. The elements of both Kantian and utilitarian philosophy were used Rawls in describing a
method for the moral evaluation of social and political institutions.

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2. Thomas Jefferson had theorized that people in the distant past had fashioned a social
contract between themselves and their leader.

3. Simpler egalitarian theories are satisfied with the view that everybody should be given, at all
costs, completely equal quantity of some basic material goods, like money.

4. Those with more authority, status, or control over the group should receive more than those
in lower level positions.

5. Slavery is wrong not because it is unproductive or inefficient, but because it is unjust, for it
does not consider individual rights inviolable.

6. The 'thought experiment is a hypothetical version of the social contract concept.

7. By taking into account the value of rationality, Rawls added a condition to assure that the
choice of social justice principles would truly be unbiased.

8. For Rawls, pure laissez-faire capitalism is also unjust, because it tends to generate an unfair
distribution of wealth and income concentrated in the hands of a few.

9. European democratic socialist countries like Denmark, Sweden, and The Netherlands practice
State socialist distributive justice system.

10. Jean Jacques Rosseau's Justice as Fairness' principles is an example of a social justice concept
called distributive justice.

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I. Identification. Identify the term/s being referred to.

1. This examines moral principles concerning business environment involving issues

about corporate practice policies, business behaviors, and the conducts relationships of individuals in
the organizations.

2. The philosophical theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle,
whether it be the constitution of the universe, of the mind and body, the sources of truth, or the basis of
morality.

3. These countries are better able to use higher-priced oil than developed countries.

4. The author who enumerates reasons why globalization is not living up to what was
ideally expected of it and regards it as our very major problem today.

5. These individuals point out that choices are complex, and so claim that we must not
shy away from the proposition that values are plural.

6. This is the world-wide integration of government policies, cultures, social movements,

and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.

7. This is the idea that there can be conflicting moral views that are each worthy of
respect.

8. The social and political theorist who is credited with being the first to popularize a
considerable work describing the theory of objective value-pluralism, taking it to the attention of the
academe.

9. He defines globalization as "intensification of worldwide relationships which link

distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away
and vice versa".

10. This plays a role in the loss of oil consumption from developed countries.

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II. True or False. Write T if the statement is true; F if it is false.

1. Moral pluralism gives us no moral standard, and offers us no moral power.

2. Globalization tends to move taxation away from individual citizens, and onto corporations.

3. Moral pluralism is a meta ethical theory, rather than a theory of normative ethics or a set of
values in itself.

4. Globalization is said to have begun after World War I but has accelerated since the mid
1980's, driven by two factors.

5. Like other ethical issues, the child labor issue is taken differently in different nations.

6. There are quite a number of moral questions and problems arising from globalization, that is,
from global interdependence and interconnection.

7. In globalization, states are in effect increasingly losing their sovereignty.

8. Moral Pluralism encourages dependence on other countries for essential goods and services.

9. Globalization transfers consumption of limited oil supply from developing

10. Although generally seen as downright good' especially by many economists, globalization
unfortunately has a dark side countries to developed countries.

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I. Fill in the blanks. Write in the blank the missing term/s.

1. Millennial’s is qualified as the self-focused time in life.

2. members are very upbeat and more open to change than older generations.

3. Some thus consider Millennials (including Filinnials) to be part of what is called

“Generation Me” and “Generation We’’.

4. Millennials are habitually painted as the entitled, generation.

5. is a term used to denote the Filipino Millennials

6. expect close relationships and frequent feedback from supervisors.

7. Millennials are seen by as somewhat greedy, self- absorbed, and wasteful.

8. In the a 2013 poll found that Millennials were more open-minded than their
parents on controversial topics.

9. Millennials came of age in a time where the entertainment industry started to be significantly
influenced by the . .

10. Even in millennials' upbringing is said to be marked by an increase in a liberal

approach to politics, economics, and morality, although this claim is disputed.

II. Identification. Identify the term/s being referred to.

1. It is derived from the olden Italian term umanista which pertains to a teacher of
classical Greek and Latin literature

2. Belief in human-based morality.

3. It explains that we are products of valueless, physical and chemical processes in a

cause-and-effect series from the big bang.

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4. A worldview that includes atheism, agnosticism, naturalism, and other ideologies

that reject all spiritual explanations of the world.

5. For them, the natural basis of ethics is human need and human reason.

6. The materialists and naturalists who regard man as a purely animal organism

7. It has become essentially synonymous with humanism these days.

8. Secular humanists assert that these are the natural basis of ethics.

9. He said, "Unless I believe in God, I can't believe in thought: so I can never use
thought to disbelieve in God."

10. Proposes that the universe is a natural phenomenon without supernatural aspect

II. True or False. Write True' if the statement is true; 'False,' if it is not true.

1. Secularism acknowledges supernatural or divine views of reality.

2. Theism explains that we are products of valueless, physical and chemical processes in a cause-
and-effect series from the big bang.

3. Human need and human reason are the bases of ethics according to secularism.

4. Secularism and humanism admit that the rules of morality were just fabricated by human
beings using human nature as the basis of this fabrication.

5. Humanism is the opposite of secularism.

6. Secular humanists propose that Ethics is conventional.

7. Moral rules are not simply based on human convention but they relate to necessary values
that stand regardless of whether or not anyone believes in them.

8. By keeping a secularist and humanist worldview, it is possible to objectively condemn

maltreatment, cruelty, or corruption as morally wrong.

9. In non-theist standpoint, mankind is nothing but just like a cosmic rock lost somewhere in a
purposeless universe doomed to perish soon.

10. In the absence of God, there is no reason to think that human beings have non-material
properties such as consciousness, reasoning power, personhood, moral sense, and values.
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COURSE & YEAR: 1BSBA-B Date:

I.True or False. Write True if the statement id true; False, if it is not true

1. In theism, all persons are held morally accountable for their actions

2. Ethics should tell us what people are doing, not what they ought to do

3. In the afterlife, there is moral accountability in non-theistic ideologies

4. Prof. Taylor espoused the "cut-flower thesis".

5. There is simply no real moral value in secular worldview.

6. Moral supernaturalism can satisfactorily explain the existence of objective ethical values.

7. Non-theism can satisfactorily explain the objectivity of moral law.

8. The "cut-flower thesis" supports secularism.

9. True religion is necessary for the continued survival of morality.

10. Non-theist theory is better than ethical supernaturalism in terms of explaining moral
accountability.

II. Identification. Identify the term/s being referred to

1. Something above and beyond the ordinary facts of man's behavior, and yet quite
definitely real

2. Calls for urgent action to re-unite religion and ethics

3. "Morality cannot survive in the run if its ties to religion are cut."

4. "A supernatural being God is the foundation of morality

5. "If there is no immorality then all things are permitted.

6. "Our moral obligations are more binding than our political obligations."

7. "Without religion there can be no real, sincere morality."

8. God's taws written in man's heart

9. An act which is value less in a secular naturalistic world view

10. Meaning of Latin terms re and ligore page 191-192